THE PREPOSTEROUS BOLLOX OF THE SITUATION
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Mila Kunis photographed by Craig McDean
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Carey Mulligan: Carey, Carey, Quite Contrary - W by Michael Thompson, January 2012
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Mila Kunis by Ruven Afanador
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He said Star Trek is too “philosophical”? Screw that noise.
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Over at Forbidden Planet, Richard Bruton reviews West: Autumn Dusk, the finale of Volume II, saying:
“This is brilliantly told work, complex, inventive, playing with multiple genres to create a true saga. The non-linearity provides the unusual structure, throwing you off kilter slightly and making you piece it all together. There’s much to enjoy here, and even more to be gleaned from multiple readings.”
Richard’s full review can be read here.
Also, creator Paul Rainey features both Autumn Dusk and The Whale House (part two) on his site:
“Cheverton is, I think, one of the best comic writers around at the moment and it’s probably this ability that attracts such strong artists to work with him. In West: Autumn Dusk it’s the always excellent Tim Keable and in The Whale House it’s the accomplished Chris Doherty.”
Paul’s full review can be read here.
Our thanks to both Richard and Paul for their time and kind words.
The Whale House and West are available in print editions here.
The Whale House and West are available in print and digital editions here.
Forbidden Planet’s Richard Bruton reviews The Whale House, part two, saying:
“…this, ladies and gents, is a superb read. In fact it may be one of the best things Cheverton’s ever written… And it’s absolutely Doherty’s best work thus far.
“Throughout the issue the tension builds and builds, and even though there’s little out and out menacing here, it’s again all down to storytelling, perfectly done. I don’t think I’ve ever been this breathless at the end of a comic where essentially the protagonist has dinner and meets a strange family before.”
The full Forbidden Planet review is here.
Also, the MOMBcast comic podcast features reviews of both The Whale House, part two and West: Autumn Dusk in their most recent show.
Listen to the MOMBcast show here.
Our thank to both reviewers for their time and kind words.
The Whale House and West are available in print editions here.
The Whale House and West are available in print and digital editions here.
“I first read Skeleton Crew as part of my initial King binge, aged 13 and hugely impressionable. His shorts weren’t what I wanted from him, so a tiny part of it felt like duty – getting through something that represented a huge amount of time and effort from somebody of whom I was in awe. But the quality of the tales (starting with The Mist, which would have been a novel for most other writers) was such that it soon became one of my favourite King books…”
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“Set on one fateful night, six friends gather for their monthly ‘games night’… and accidentally unleash a demonic force that might tear them - and their friendships - to pieces.
“WARNING: Contains scenes unsuitable for young children.”
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“Until this point, Bachman wrote human stories. The four Bachman books were about broken, trapped men, desperately clinging to humanity while the world they inhabited pushed them further away from it. Rage, Running Man, The Long Walk, Roadwork: while they might trip into SF territory, they all exist by focusing on the human side of their protagonists, backing them into corners and making them fight their way out . King’s work at this point utilised more traditional horror tropes – the haunted or possessed whatevers that drove the stories along. That line dividing King from Bachman collapsed with Thinner, which throws its hat firmly into the supernatural ring almost from the first…”
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In Silent Graves by Gary A. Braunbeck
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
While it has a lot going for it, this book is a complete mess.
Braunbeck has written, at heart, a very affecting book about loss and bereavement, but the excessive horror undermines much of what should be sensitive work, but which descends into gross-out far too easily. (I’ve been reading horror - from the lyrical to the grotesque - for 35 years, so I’ve certainly seen it all, but the scene in the morgue will be hard to stomach for many people.) Adding to this detraction, the protagonist spends much of the first third of the book flailing uselessly - this may be realistic, as far as it goes, but it’s a terrible slog to get through as a reader, especially when the presumed antagonist becomes a partner and excuses his previous actions with a flip comment that infuriates more than explains.
The second half of the book seems pathetically indebted to the sharp and incisive work of Jonathan Carroll, a sentiment and style utterly at odds with the rest of the laborious horror that has come before.
Unbelievably - as I had persevered with this book because of its glowing reviews, despite my almost complete lack of interest or enjoyment - Braunbeck somehow managed, in the final pages, to pull off a scene with such uncloying sentiment and heartfelt emotion that I finished In Silent Graves with an honest and unexpected tear in my eye. Really still not sure how that happened.
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“Hollywood has always played fast and loose with books – risking the author’s wrath by changing plot and characters wholesale. Joe Dunthorne looks back on some memorable film cheats…”
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